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Napster users got their accounts back

Written by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny @ 05 Jun 2000 19:07

Remember few weeks ago when this whole Napster-Metallica-Dr.Dre -mess started? Ok, now the first round is almost done -- even that I know there are whole lotta more to come.

So, Metallica forced 300k users to be removed from Napster. And 30k of those complained. And Metallica didn't sue them. And based on U.S. laws, now they've got their accounts back online. And Metallica's pissed...

That's it this time :-)

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